Comment by dragonwriter

> Not that I'm steeped in dilbert lore, but wasn't the the main villain was a stupid balding white manager guy?

I'd bet dollars to donuts that (if there is truth at all to him being told what he claims) the superiors making the promotion decisions so that told him he was being passed over because he was a White men were also White men. If he had to justify it, he might say that PHB also became a manager before the wave of political correctness.